"Kate?"

"Yes, is it a surprise?" Kate on the other end of the phone. Winslet laughed loudly.

Daniel and Sally looked at each other and motioned for a moment to continue, then he stood up and walked to the window, where the lush greenery of the bushes cut off the villa from the outside world.

"I'm dying of surprise, I didn't expect to get a call from you, aren't you on holiday in the UK?"

"Yes, but who made you so popular that it even affected my vacation life."

"This really scares me, what's going on?"

Kate didn't plan to continue playing pantomime, "There's an independent filmmaker in the UK named Simon. Channing. Williams, he recently approached me, and you know the UK is so big, so it's easy to get hooked up in a roundabout way. He said he had a script that you might be interested in, and that he would like to come to Los Angeles and talk to you if you want. ”

Daniel was stunned, he might be interested? He thought about it, he didn't seem to be more interested in a certain type of film outside, so Mr. Williams, so sure that he invited the most famous actress in Britain, I am afraid he is still a little sure.

"Of course, I'd be happy to host him, but do you know what the script is about?"

"He said it was a script about refugees and Africa, but I didn't see it, and you know I'm still on vacation, so I really don't want to read it."

Daniel suddenly realized.

President Kibakiji's conversation with him, which was reported by Kenyan state media and reprinted by major news agencies, reached a very large audience, and many people now know that Kibaki asked Daniel to make a film about Africa so that Westerners could pay more attention to what is happening in Africa and the help that Africa needs.

Just like Hotel Rwanda did.

Williams is clearly one of them, and he probably has exactly such a story in his hands.

Daniel thought about it, but it was really hard to think of which story it was. And. Maybe it's a movie that hasn't been made - then he certainly doesn't have any memory.

However, he still intends to give Kate this face, and importantly, next. He will be near Los Angeles, on the one hand, to continue to revise for the October exams, and on the other hand, to lead DD Pictures to continue the post-screening promotion of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

On July 9, "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released on 3,321 screens in North America. The single-day box office is not particularly good, but it is still necessary to look at the final number of the box office in a longer trajectory. At this time, it is very important to manage the post-release word-of-mouth, Robert personally communicated with Daniel about this matter, hoping that DD Pictures can fully promote this matter, and he promised that he will give them DD's hairstyle this morning during the account sharing period

So. Daniel had to keep an eye on it himself.

Actually, this is still very beneficial to him, after all, Daniel knows that "Pirates of the Caribbean" itself is a work with good curves, 70 million in the first five days, 63 million in the second week, almost a slight decline, and at the beginning of the third week, it fell to 35 million, and then it has been at a rate of 1 or 20 million. In the long run, it has broken more than 300 million.

With the blessing of DD, its rating on IMDB has been maintained above 8.5, and the MB movie rating has even been as high as 9 in the first week. MB Movie Rating is a scoring mechanism for MB users. As soon as it was launched, it surpassed the popularity of professional websites such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.

Although its authority cannot be compared with the two, as an indicator of popularity and audience liking, MB movie ratings are still valued by more and more filmmakers, because in the final analysis, whether it is IMDB. It's still Rotten Tomatoes, and they will only make sense if they ultimately act on the general audience.

Since MB movie ratings have a more direct effect, there's no reason why studios shouldn't pay attention to them.

What's more, with the in-depth cooperation between MB and box office sites such as box-office-mojo, as well as the official websites of major studios, the trend of using MB as a comprehensive platform for movies has become more and more obvious. MB also participated in the establishment of an Internet ticketing website, which is another cooperation with the cinema chain.

MB provides a perfect platform and can be a win-win situation with content providers, which is the most important reason why MB is making rapid progress in these things.

……

Simon. Williams came very quickly, and after the good news that "Pirates" received 48.63 million in the first weekend of 3 days, Williams had already called Sally, saying that he was in Los Angeles and could meet with Daniel at any time.

"He's so positive."

"Independent filmmakers are like that, running around for an opportunity, everything to make the project work and not die." Cussa said.

Daniel was talking to Cusa about the progress of Google's negotiations, and Williams had to put it back a bit.

There has been a clear progress.

In terms of subscribing to the internal original shares, Google proposed a gradient plan.

Google's IPO hopes to raise more than $3 billion, and if this figure is reached, then Daniel will get less benefits, and Google is only willing to give a 15% discount, that is, a price lower than 15% of the issue price, to buy up to 10 million shares of the company, and if the expected goal is not reached, that is, the 30 million shares provided to the market IPO have not been sold at a price of about $100, according to the amount of funds raised by Google to make a gradient plan.

If it is less than 2.5 billion, the discount will be 20%, and if it is less than 2 billion, Google will give a 35% discount.

This is, of course, to avoid the eventual underfunding of Google's development, so that Daniel's acquisition can make up for it as much as possible.

Daniel only made Raymond pretend to hesitate for two days before agreeing to this—why not? Daniel knew that Google's IPO was the biggest setback for the company, which had only been around for a few years, and had developed over the next two decades.

Google came up with this gradient scheme so thoughtfully that Daniel couldn't let the other party down at all.

After a breakthrough of one point, the rest of the content to be talked about will also speed up.

For example, Google has recently taken a very positive attitude in investing in MB, especially Daniel's visit to Kenya, which has led to a large number of social organizations, United Nations organizations and some foreign countries to start opening homepages on MB to promote themselves. In particular, some places known for their tourism industry have begun to try to cooperate more closely with MB.

This has directly contributed to MB's valuation rising significantly.

Javier became almost the first big man in the social media era – and his power grew rapidly almost every day. As MB spreads across all fields, as more and more people join, more and more heavyweights, every bit adds to his power.

He has just been interviewed on the cover of People magazine. Explore the impact of social media MB on the world.

After the interview, he also made a special call to Daniel, saying that he had stolen Daniel's opportunity to be in the limelight, but he felt very good.

Daniel was speechless.

Then turn to Mark. Vaughn said, voila. Work hard, boy, and you'll be on the cover of People soon.

The preparation for F2F is mostly technical, and some of Daniel's concepts and strategic ideas need to be turned into features and websites by technicians that Mark brings in from companies like Google, and then after months of testing, at least for now, the launch of F2F is still undecided, maybe by the end of this year. Maybe it's early next year -- it's different from Facebook, the first version of Facebook was a very simple website, and the target group was only Harvard college students, and now F2F is a mature website, and its full framework needs to be built together.

……

"I'm sorry, Mr. Williams, to keep you waiting."

"Los Angeles is a great city, I'm very happy here, and your assistant is very sweet." Simon was clearly not going to be angry about seeing Daniel a day late.

Daniel invited him directly to his home the next day.

He now minimizes his outings because security at home is the best.

But in September and October. He is going abroad to shoot the second part of "Spy", and Miller is already making a security plan, but the limelight of the attack on New York has weakened, and their pressure is much less.

Served Simon English black tea. Daniel flipped through the script he had brought.

"This screenplay is adapted from the work of a novelist named John. Strangle. Carré, he published the book in 2001, but I got the rights to adapt the film before then. The female character Tessa in the movie is archetypal, and her name is Yvette. Pierre Bowley, is a social activist. She is also the representative of the International Organization of Refugees. A few years ago, she died unexpectedly in a car accident, so John fashioned her as Tessa. ”

Daniel spent a full hour reading through the script.

"Is the original book allowed to be published in Kenya?"

That was his first question, and he now knows what it is.

"The Immortal Gardener"!

It describes a British ambassador to Kenya who, for the sake of his wife, who died unexpectedly, and her revelations about the scandal of pharmaceutical giants conducting illegal drug trials in Kenya. Importantly, there's a lot of corruption in Kenya – it's hard for Daniel to believe that the film was allowed to be filmed in Kenya.

"No, but we can shoot in South Africa."

Daniel looked at him like he was looking at a madman, "Uh, Simon, can I call you that?" Yes, I intended to make a film on a similar subject, but not to attack some African governments, you know what I mean? I don't agree that the United States, like some Western countries, is crazy about promoting so-called values around the world, and there is no reason why only one value in the world is correct. And, even if the problem exists, it is up to the international corrupt group and the Security Council to hold Kenya accountable, not me.

So, do you think that the president of Kenya invited me to shoot a film, and then I took the script, slapped him in the face, and then was banned by Kenya for the rest of my life, would it be a possible choice for me? Do I look like an idiot? And, that's what you want? Simon? (To be continued.) )

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